I wonder how the media was reporting the Spanish Influenza epidemic in 1918 .....killed like 18 million in two years. This Ebola thing so far or AIDS is nothing compared to that.
They essentially weren't from what I understand. The story is they vastly underreported it to avoid panic and lack of moral in wartime. Spain was the only "safe" country to report on it about because it was neutral. That's why it got stuck with the name Spanish flu.
True enough so far. We will see. Very interesting subject matter. So sad for the victims. We will lose most of the world to this or something else. Small pox?. It is what a few marxist scientists want, and marxists enjoy killing innocents.
One main reason Ebola is not as deadly yet is it kills it's host too fast. A victim only has a few days to pass the virus before he/she dies. But scientist say a small mutation could cause people to die more slowly and then infected individuals could spread the virus to more 'vectors' before they themselves died. Their more worried about that then the virus mutating to an airborne virus.
transportation changes since then (we were still using horses) changes the speed of transmission.
the Spanish flu would be equally devastating today. if that happened today, there’d be far more then 18m dead
Aids is no slouch, 2.3 million in 2005 and 1.6 million in 2012.